In this cheat sheet, you'll find the 9 most important ranking signals that multiple studies have found to have the biggest impact on rankings today. The cheat sheet is based on our own research at SEO PowerSuite, as well as this year's ranking factors studies by SearchMetrics and Backlinko.

All four SEO PowerSuite apps just got a fresh, modern look — and much more than that. With dozens of our users' suggestions incorporated right into the tools, you are in for improved readability and navigation, delightful customizability, and uncluttered, intuitive user experience.

Starting a blog is easy, even writing your first post is simple and fun. But what does it take to become a successful blogger with a huge army of readers? Today's post is focused on the fundamentals of SEO and online marketing for bloggers. If you're just getting started with a new blog, or even if you're a seasoned writer looking for a quick refresher on SEO best practices, this checklist is for you.

With Google's mobile-first indexing of the Web and 60% of searches coming from smartphones, an error-free mobile site is a must. In today's article, I'm sharing my top tips for getting mobile right and growing your mobile rankings.

I bet you've heard about the Skyscraper link building technique a thousand times, but have you actually tried it? If you've been neglecting this method all this time but want to give it a try, you'll find today's post really useful. You're about to discover if the Skyscraper tactic is worth your time and effort and how you can optimize the workflow using SEO PowerSuite tools. Let's begin.

Just out, Custom Search in Website Auditor is lets you do a number of things you couldn't do before, and saves you tons of time on many tasks that used to take hours. To help you make the most of it, I've put together 10 super quick (but powerful) ways to use it — for SEO, content marketing, and way beyond.

A thorough site crawl is the technical foundation of SEO success. But due to the various technologies used to build websites in 2016 and the multitude of SEO factors to track, site auditing can become a challenge. Today, we're rolling out the final iteration of the big WebSite Auditor revamp, which was designed to change that. The update includes everything one can ask of an SEO spider: crawling dynamically generated content, identifying redirect chains, searching for any piece of content sitewide, and more.

It feels like only yesterday we were making our bets on what was awaiting SEO in 2016. Then boom, and it's almost 2017 — the time for planning, budgeting, and strategizing for your SEO success in 2017 has come. And if you need some inspiration or some help setting up the priorities, I've got a handful of useful tips to share! Just back from SMX East, one of the largest SEO events in the USA, I've carefully documented the most important takeaways for you. Some of them are quite logical and expected, but others are true game changers!

This September was pretty busy for the SEO folk. First, many SEOs saw major shifts in the local pack; second, Google officially confirmed that they've begun rolling out the Penguin 4.0 real-time algorithm. In this post, I'll explain what each of these changes are, and help you figure out whether they impacted your website, and what you can do to keep rankings safe.

Over the last years, we've seen lots of discussion around the value of rank tracking in the modern era of SEO. Some say search results have become too personalized for SEOs to be able to accurately track rankings; others are convinced keywords no longer matter for SEO in the age of semantic search. I have to admit, these ideas aren't coming from nowhere. But does it really mean we have to stop tracking rankings in 2017?

Ah, the buzzwords. We've been hearing about AI, machine learning, natural language processing, and the like for a while now. But really, what are those things? How do they affect Google's search results? And why does any of this even matter? In this article, I've put together 5 trends that are revolutionizing search, with a detailed explanation of the mechanisms behind each one, its role in Google's ranking algorithm, and the impact it's likely to have on SEO.

Analyzing changes in search engine results for your keywords is the way to get strategic insights about competitors and spot niche-specific search trends that can affect your rankings. The new SERP Analysis tool in Rank Tracker was designed to collect that data for you and turn it into meaningful, actionable insights.

No doubt that a smart, SEO-friendly site redesign can improve user experience and boost conversions; but if things go wrong, it can (and will) lead to an irreversible SEO disaster. To help you make the most of updating your site's look-n-feel and keep your rankings safe, I've put together the SEO's guide to site redesign: your ultimate reference for SEO dos and don'ts when updating or migrating your site.

In today’s blog post, Murris Johnson, a long-time SEO and digital marketer is sharing his favorite link building tactic – competitor backlink acquisition. It’s a simple 4-step process that Murris has been using successfully for over 5 years, and the only link building strategy that has stood the test of time.

I'm sure you know this feeling: you're staring at Google's search results with your competitors ranking at the very top, repeatedly asking yourself this one question: "How on earth did they do it?" To help you find the answer, I've put together a detailed case study of 4 big real-life SEO wins - the success stories of four very different businesses and their way to top Google rankings.

On-site SEO is the common name for a vast variety of tasks. From server-side redirects to tiny tweaks in your title tags, can one tool really handle all those things? Yup - and I got proof. In today's post, I've put together 65+ ways to use WebSite Auditor - from site crawling and auditing to page analysis and optimization - for ultimate on-site SEO success.

Let's be honest: 'easy and quick' isn't exactly how SEO is. But while the time-consuming parts of the process (think link building) definitely shouldn't be ignored, there're also tactics that only take a few minutes to implement - and can be just as effective. In today's post, I'm sharing the top 10 quick SEO hacks - ones that we've seen make the biggest difference for our own rankings.

For over 2 months, we've been revamping WebSite Auditor and rebuilding its crawler from scratch, in order to let you, the SEO, see your site exactly the way search engines do and create the most comprehensive SEO spider out there. Today, the update finally went live, and we can't wait for you to try it out!

How about squeezing some extra juice out of your SEO software? In today's post, we've put together the freshest list of SEO PowerSuite's killer features that 80% of users overlook. Make sure you don't miss out on any of these goodies!

For maximum traffic and payoff, it's not enough to simply rank high in Google. You have to rank with the right page (relevant & converting) for each keyword, and take immediate action whenever a wrong page shows up in search instead of the intended one. Today I'm sharing the 8-step process to find, fix, and prevent the issue.